The Bourne Supremacy [HD DVD] | ![The Bourne Supremacy [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c4r-6b1jL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  421 reviews
Sales Rank: 7169
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: HD25167
UPC: 025192516726
EAN: 0025192516726
ASIN: B000E1MTXQ
Theatrical Release Date: July 23, 2004
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential, The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where The Bourne Identity left off, the action begins when CIA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving CIA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning from the previous film) and a shadowy Russian oil magnate. The fast-paced action hurtles from India to Berlin, Moscow, and Italy, and as he did with the critically acclaimed Bloody Sunday, director Paul Greengrass puts you right in the thick of it with split-second editing (too much of it, actually) and a knack for well-sustained tension. It doesn't all make sense, and bears little resemblance to Robert Ludlum's novel, but with Damon proving to be an appealingly unconventional action hero, there's plenty to look forward to. --Jeff Shannon
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 An Entertaining Action Flick June 18, 2009
S. Peek (Rocky Mountains, USA)
This second installment in the Bourne series picks up where the first one leaves off and does so in a very entertaining fashion.
It begins a couple of years after the first movie and finds Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) living with his lover Maria (Frank Potente) in India. He is framed for the murder of a CIA agent and someone makes an attempt on his life. These events set the action in motion and it never slows down after that.
The story goes from India across Europe and also has action in Russia. Bourne is a very efficient operator and makes life very dangerous for those who are gunning for him. As the plot unfolds, he keeps regaining parts of his memory.
Anyone who liked the Bourne Identity should love this one. It is a better thriller and will keep viewers on the edge of their seats. I enjoyed it a lot.
NOT ONLY A SUCCESSFUL SEQUEL, BUT... May 31, 2009
Josef Bush (Phoenix, AZ)
It would seem that the reason this sequel was made as it was is that the inner spring of the Agency's deceit was not revealed in the initial release. And so, rather than pile on the fight sequences, the producer/director decided to (yes, pile on the fight sequences, but) dive into the villany of Bourne's predicament. And its simply this: the USA for some reason, wanted to wire either 3 million or 3 billion dollars in aid to Russia, and it was stolen en transit. The theft was engineered by a corrupt member of Russian Intelligence, working with two corrupt CIA officials. The three split the money and faked the theft by cloaking it in a CIA assassionation by a new operator, Bourne. His fingerprints were stolen to be used later as false proof of his involvement, and his memory and/or identity snapped or malfunctioned. We can't be sure how, but it appears to have been a reaction to his home agency's guilt in not only the murder of the Russian businessman and his wife, but in its willingness to sacrifice personnel so that the CIA thieves could keep not only their stolen wealth, but their positions and perks in the Agency.
Not an easy skein to unwind at any speed, but seemingly impossible at the speed required to match Bourne's life as an international fugitive.
True, one of the two corrupt CIA officials was killed at the end of the original story, but as we learn, the survivor, in order to protect himself from the hidden but questionable file involving himself, has to use his contacts with the KGB to eliminate Bourne. That Avening Angel with Carl Urban's raptor face, like the hero in Prokoffiev's opera of that name, seeks out Bourne and his lover in Beach resort Goa, and kills her with a sniper's long range rifle, believing he's killed him. Then he's off to Russia never to be seen again, presumably.
She is shot behind the wheel of a 4X4 as it crashes through a guard rail and plunges into the water below, and the underwater sequence in which Bourne tried both to save the dead and/or dying woman and then to reposition her in the vehicle inspired, it seems to me, Daniel Craig's very similar attempt in CASINO ROYALE to save drowning Eva Green who's trapped in a metal elevator cage that is sinking into a Venedian canal. The intensity; the despair of love and sensuality irretrevably lost. Its all there. And then the movie gears up into Bourne's Revenge Mode. And it doesn't slow down. Bourne becomes, his humanity nearaly burnt away, like the edge of ALLAH's sword, Justice, which no man can evade, fortell or delay.
At Headquarters we see faces we remember from the initial show, and replacing the corrupt Management Operative who was taken out, we find Joan Allen as Langley's on-the-spot Inquirer, re-opening the Bourne file and searching through whatever evidence remains to find out not just who, but why. Good performance. But how unexpected: to play the character as the femenine side of Ann Coulter!
Well, there are chase sequences throughout Europe -- all thrilling and ingeneous -- and finally, in Moscow, Bourne -- piloting an old RussoFiat Taxi like a maniac -- manages to get his lover's killer, and we get a keen sort of sensual fulfillment looking at dead Urban's face, the top of his bloody head blown away.
Personally, I find this feature to be extremely rewarding and entertaining, but I think the best way to watch it is not as a sequal to the first film, but as the second part or reel of that story. Just watch it without interruption and any sense of dislocation of narrative tissue will be lost. Instead, the Bourne experience will be heightened. Which is amazing, even to contemplate in the abstract!
The Bourne Supremacy (Full Screen Edition) May 2, 2009
Stanley L. Young
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 Bourne Supremacy April 13, 2009
Robert C. Hicks
Great action movie. If you liked the first one you will like this one.
 Good non-stop action trumps Bourne's moral turpitude March 14, 2009
Turfseer (New York, N.Y.)
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When you strip 'The Bourne Supremacy" down to its bare essentials, basically what you have is a high-powered, well-done chase movie. For the most part, it's non-stop action--and the producers were smart to enlist Paul Greenglass as the director. Greenglass films 'Supremacy' in a documentary style, making use of hand-held camera shots in many scenes. One of my favorite scenes where you really feel the events actually could have happened is when Bourne kills a fellow CIA agent in Munich and then blows up the house where the killing took place. Not only are the sequence of events leading up to the explosion choreographed masterfully(the fight scene, the lighting of the fuse, etc.) but the aftermath is equally effective--as Bourne drives away, the police are heading in the opposite direction toward the burning house which we glimpse in the distance.
The plot to 'Supremacy' is more convoluted than complicated. In a nutshell, a rogue CIA agent conspires with Russian criminal elements to frame Bourne for two recent murders (also involving CIA agents). After a failed assassination attempt in India, Bourne escapes and is pursued by both the CIA and the Russians. Since he has amnesia, he's trying to figure out who's hunting him and why. Bourne eventually discovers he was part of a secret project called 'Treadstone' and was involved in the murder of a well-known Russian politician and his wife. The politician was set to expose the collusion between the rogue CIA agent (Abbott, convincingly played by Brian Cox) and the Russians.
Matt Damon who plays Bourne, has very little dialogue in this movie. Damon usually gives capable performances but with little nuance. Nonetheless, the part calls for a great deal of physical action and Damon is up to the job. This is what he's good at--playing parts that require someone who's in great physical shape. What doesn't ring true is that Bourne is too much of a superman--a killing machine that basically no one can stop.
The supporting players here are equally as good. There's a lot of nice conflict between Brian Cox's Abbott who seeks to stymie Joan Allen's Pamela Landy, the CIA deputy administrator from discovering that's he's the rogue agent responsible for all the trouble. The Russian assassin and his boss are equally realistic as menacing villains.
'The Bourne Supremacy' was filmed on location in many different countries including India, Italy, Germany and Russia. This gives the film a great deal of its verisimilitude.
'Supremacy' wears out its welcome in the final scenes. There's a car-chase sequence that's been done many times before and goes on for too long. And there's an additional scene tacked on at the end where Bourne visits the teenage daughter of the Russian politician where he reveals that he was actually responsible for murdering her parents. Whether Bourne was brainwashed at the time or whether he knew exactly what he was doing, the writers succeed in undermining Bourne's heroic status and we're left with a sour taste in our mouths after realizing Bourne really isn't such a good guy after all.
Forget about Supremacy's thin plot and the Bourne character's moral turpitude. If you like non-stop action, The Bourne Supremacy is worth seeing.
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